First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's iconic and genuinely creepy vampire story is told through the diaries and letters of young solicitor Jonathan Harker and his friends and associates, including ...(Read More)

A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbor dead on the floor, in this 20th case for Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but ...(Read More)

Reclusive Fjällbacka resident Christian Thydell should be thrilled: his debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever? In this sixth ...(Read More)

Originally published in 1914, this was James Joyce's first major work, written in self-imposed exile in Trieste. A collection of 15 short stories dealing with fleeting episodes in the everyday lives ...(Read More)

In this second novel of her Last Hundred Years trilogy, following the National Book Award nominee Some Luck, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley returns to the Langdon family of Iowa farmers, ...(Read More)

When Samuel Beckett completed his first book of stories More Pricks Than Kicks in 1934, his publisher asked for a concluding piece for the book, but ultimately rejected the resulting story. ...(Read More)

"She saw her life as something that was scattered untidily about, without a pattern, without rhyme or reason," wrote William Trevor in this 1973 novel. Elizabeth Aidallbery has lost her husband, her ...(Read More)